PBS – Public Broadcasting Service

2014-? - PBS - Tom Hegna's Public Television Special: Don't Worry, Retire Happy!

2009 - PBS -
- 2014 - https://static.fmgsuite.com/media/documents/731828d7-0eb7-4291-a73e-fb3cdda1497d.pdf
  - p2 - Retirement Income from Whole Life Insurance
    - [Bonk: 2009 - MassMutual Analysis: Whole Life Insurance Can Help Supply Retirement Income, Preserve Equity Portfolios During Bear Markets
      - As part of the company's commitment to bringing national attention to the importance of planning and saving for retirement, MassMutual is the exclusive national underwriter of Retirement Revolution: The New Reality((R)), a nationally broadcast special to premiere on September 15, 2009 on PBS. The program will feature deeply personal stories, new glimmers of hope and dramatic changes people are making to help achieve their definition of a successful retirement. The New Reality is the second installment of the Retirement Revolution((R)) series, which debuted last spring.
  - 2009 0909 - Retired Americans, Up Close and Personal, Via PBS - [link]
    - ...Brian Boyer, the 70-year-old former newspaperman and current TV documentary maker who produced “Retirement Revolution: The New Reality,” a 90-minute film that PBS and WTTW-Chicago will broadcast nationwide on September 15. It is hosted by Paula Zahn and underwritten by MassMutual.

2008 Financial Crisis
- 2012 - FRONTLINE PBS - Money, Power and Wall Street, Part One (full documentary) - [VIDEO-YouTube-53:18]
  - In the 2012 award-winning series Money, Power and Wall Street, FRONTLINE tells the story of the struggles to repair the economy after the 2008 financial crisis, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the uneasy partnership between leaders of government and finance.
- 2012 - FRONTLINE PBS - Money, Power and Wall Street, Part Two (full documentary) - [VIDEO-YouTube-53:17]
- 2012 - FRONTLINE PBS - Money, Power and Wall Street, Part Three (full documentary) - [VIDEO-YouTube-53:18]

Ed Slott
- Retire Safe & Secure With Ed Slott For 2021
  - "move money from forever taxes to never taxed"
2020 0220 - PBS - Is Whole Life Insurance a Scam? - 6m 46s - [link]

The following was also sent to my local affiliate WOSU: I know that times are tough and that you are looking for ways to generate pledges while reducing costs but you have gone too far. The dramatic increase over the last couple years of infomercial programming has now put you on par with late night cable. Whatever you think the PBS brand stands for, please understand that every time you air these inane book/DVD hawking ramblings you erode the foundation of PBS.
Look at your own statement on standards
Now look at last Saturday's programming: Ed Slott's Stay Rich for Life; Magnificent Mind at Any Age with Dr. Daniel Amen; Suze Orman: Women & Money; UltraMind Solution With Dr. Mark Hyman; You: Inner and Outer Beauty With Dr. Michael Roizen; Be Well Now! With Nancy Snyderman, MD
Not a single one of these 'programs' can even come close to meeting your set standards of Editorial Integrity and Quality. The 'medical' content is horrific — not a shred of meaningful, peer-reviewed science in any of it. PBS is better than this. PBS is NOVA, Charlie Rose, Masterpiece Theater, This Old House, Mr Rogers, Jim Lehrer, New Yankee, etc.

-- Paul Rothrock, Columbus, OH